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(2) Mr. C. G. Talbot-Ponsonby was elected Honorary- 



Secretary and Treasurer in the place of Dr. P. R. 

 Lowe who had resigned. 



(3) The resolution of Mr. Clifford Borrer with regard to 



the non-admission of ladies to the Club, which had 

 been carried at an Ordinary Meeting of the Club in 

 April last, was put to the meeting for confirmation 

 and, with slight amendments, carried. 



(4) Alterations to the rules (already confirmed by the 



Club) were reported to the meeting. 



At the conclusion of the usual Dinner, the Chairman 

 read his Annual Address, as follows : — 



" Brother Members of the B. O. C, — 



''It is with very mixed feelings that I address you at this 

 opening of our new session. It is the third opening meeting 

 which has found us involved in this terrible and devastating 

 war. Not only must we grieve with our country, which is 

 undergoing such loss and destruction, but the war is causing 

 us personally great losses and damage. 



We have to mourn many valued friends and members, 

 and, Ornitliology being eminently a pursuit of peaceful sur- 

 roundings, W'C also must regret the injury done to our 

 favourite science. Since the opening of last session (1915- 

 1916) we have lost in the war Colonel H. H. Harington, 

 Captain E. F. Penn_, Colonel Charles Stonham, and Colonel 

 B. R. Horsbrugh; we have lost also by death Sir A. W. 

 Biicker, Mr. Guy L'Estrange Ewen, Mr. P. T. L. Dods- 

 worth. Colonel E. A. Butler, Mr. H. E. Dresser, Mr. J. A. 

 Harvie-Brown, Major F. W. Proctor, and Mr. Robert 

 Warren. In Ameiuca Ornithology has had the great loss of 

 Professors D. G. Elliot and W. w". Cooke. 



Owing to the war very little exploration and collecting 

 has been carried out, but in Siam and Thibet the collectors 

 of our friends Messrs. Williamson and Stuart Baker con- 

 tinue to do good work. Messrs. Robinson and Kloss have 



